Build unshakable clarity that lasts beyond the next plan.

For the ambitious professional who's executing someone else's priorities — and quietly wondering what would happen if they finally executed their own.

• Your calendar is full of things someone else put there.
• You've been telling yourself you'll figure it out after the next raise, the next launch, the next reorg.
• You are great at what you do. You're no longer sure what you're doing it for.
• You can work harder — you've proven that. The hardest problem is deciding what deserves your work.
• You know roughly what you want next — a role, a company, a move — but the field of options leaves you stuck.

What you leave with

Two days in the wilderness, 24 hours alone under the stars, and structured contemplation of what you value most. You leave with a decision compass — five values deep enough to change your habits, and a filter you can run every future move through.

1. 01Your top five values, embodied.
2. 02A rule for when two of them collide.
3. 03A decision filter you can pressure-test.
4. 04Three specific next moves.
5. 05A 30- and 90-day revision method.

Solo, in community

The 24 hours are yours alone. The hours before and after are not.

You'll arrive to a room of eleven other participants at similar altitude — the kind of people whose opinion you'd actually want. You'll break bread together, set intentions together, and come back from the solo to pressure-test what you found in front of the group. Real feedback, no advice.

You leave with your own compass, sharpened against eleven others — and a cohort you can call on long after the fire is out.

Solo self-facilitated wilderness is a different animal — no one on call, no one with your back if the weather turns or the mind wanders somewhere hard. Here, you're not. Rob leads the field team: AMGA-certified, wilderness EMT, 10+ years in remote emergency response, 100+ facilitated solos. Even seasoned campers find it changes what's possible.

The arc

Who runs it

Jonah Larkin

Former Founder · Stanford GSB Coach & Facilitator

• Facilitates interpersonal dynamics at Stanford's Graduate School of Business.
• Works with hyper-scaling AI cofounders on conflict, negotiation, decision rights, strategy, and the conversations most teams avoid.

Rob Balloch

Wilderness Therapy Guide · Berkeley Haas MBA '27 · Industry-Leading Risk Management Author

• AMGA · WEMT · 10+ years in remote emergency response · 1,500+ field days · 100+ facilitated solos.
• CBT, Buddhist psychology, and Jungian theory in practice. Focus: values clarity and decisive action.

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